Climate change is having an incredible impact on cities around the world. As our elected leaders and scientific minds look to future technology to save us, is it possible the solution might be found in sacred knowledge from the planet's Indigenous peoples?

In this panel conversation we hear from Indigenous architects from Tkaronto/Toronto, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Rapa Nui/Easter Island who are applying ancestral ingenuity to their craft.

Matthew PJ Hickey (Two Row Architect)
Whare Timu (Warren and Mahoney)
Hetereki Huke (Tepuku, Applied Research Center for Rapa Nui and the Pacific)

Join City of Toronto's Mark Sherman, Natural Environment Specialist for an instructional tour focused on identifying tree species once the leaves have fallen. Participants will meet at the Parliament Public Library, and travel together through Regent Park. No experience required! Bring your curiosity, and a keen eye for details, as we'll be stopping along the way to observe tree's characteristics. The tour takes place outside, so please dress weather appropriate. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Pre-registration is required, and limited. Please email GreenToronto@toronto.ca to secure your spot!

Date & Time: November 20th, 2021. 11:00 AM
Tour Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Starting Location: Parliament Public Library, 269 Gerrard St., Front Foyer
Path Description: Tour will take place on public sidewalks and a path within a public park.

Registration: Email GreenToronto@Toronto.ca to secure a spot!

This event is part of TPL's On Civil Society: Climate series, a year-long programming initiative that explores the effects that climate change is having on the only habitat we have.  We are faced with radical and unknown effects on the world’s oceans, rivers, wildlife and diminishing biodiversity.  These new realities of a future world paint a sobering picture that disrupts the very idea of humankind and its interventions on the planet.

Each month we focus on a different facet of the topic, featuring some of the world’s most innovative thinkers, scientists, activists, journalists and artists. Critical and long-neglected voices offer new perspectives on where we went wrong and, perhaps, some solutions for a healthy, sustainable and equitable future for our planet.

We will offer tools to help you weigh in with your opinions and experience, but more than this, we aim to inspire in at least some of you the desire to get involved in any way that works for you: through panels, lectures, field trips and workshops, key organizations will help you see some of those working for our planet that we didn’t even know about.

On Civil Society: Climate is a collaborative project sponsored by Toronto Public Library, the Consulat Général de France à Toronto et Institut Français.

TPL’s On Civil Society series is generously supported in part by Chris M. Reid.

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Toronto Public Library is committed to accessibility. Please call or email us if you are Deaf or have a disability and would like to request accommodation to participate in this program. Please let us know as far in advance as possible and we will do our best to meet your request. At least three weeks notice is preferred. Phone 416-393-7099 or email accessibleservices@tpl.ca

Climate - Indigenous Cities for a Sustainable Future